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Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes

A Darwinian Interpretation of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders

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  1. Milind Watve

    1. Education and Research (IISER), Indian Institute of Science, Pune, India

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  • Exposes the gaps in our understanding and suggest alternative ways of thinking about diabetes

  • Explains the diversity of processes in a coherent manner

  • Forms a new and more robust skeleton around which the body of future research can be built ?

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. A Darwinian Way of Thinking

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 1-15

  3. Diabetes in a Textbook

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 17-34

  4. Diabetes in an Undergraduate Class

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 35-71

  5. The Rise and Fall of Thrift

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 73-94

  6. Of Hawks and Doves

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 95-112

  7. Of Soldiers and Diplomats

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 113-133

  8. The Physiology of Aggression

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 135-169

  9. Deploying the Immunological Garrison

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 171-184

  10. Why Population Density Matters

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 185-202

  11. Time to Give Up Stress

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 203-218

  12. Fat: Beyond Energy Storage

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 219-244

  13. Why Blood Sugar Goes Up

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 245-284

  14. Beating Around the “Wrong” Bush?

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 285-303

  15. Behavioral Deficiencies and Behavioral Supplementation

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 305-317

  16. Where Do We Go From Here?

    • Milind Watve
    Pages 319-337

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 339-380
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About this book

Darwinian medicine looks at the ecological and evolutionary roots of disease. A disease is an interaction between a genome and its biotic or abiotic environment and therefore a disease is essentially an ecological process. Good understanding of ecology and a Darwinian way of thinking can give us novel and useful perspectives on health and disease. If we understand the disease process better, we can certainly prevent, control as well as treat diseases in a better way. Although the thought that the origins of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) might lie in our hunter gatherer adaptations is not new, research over the last decade makes us rethink many of the classical concepts. Brain and behavior is increasingly being recognized as central to all the endocrine, metabolic and immunological changes that earmark type 2 diabetes and other metabolic syndrome disorders. A major change in paradigm appears to be on the horizon and the proposed book intends to speed up the paradigm shift by raising important questions, pointing out flaws and inadequacies in the prevalent paradigm and stimulating radical rethinking which would redirect and refine the line of research as well as bring some fundamental changes in drug discovery and clinical practice. ​

Authors and Affiliations

  • Education and Research (IISER), Indian Institute of Science, Pune, India

    Milind Watve

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes

  • Book Subtitle: A Darwinian Interpretation of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders

  • Authors: Milind Watve

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4409-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-4408-4Published: 30 August 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4580-1Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-4409-1Published: 30 August 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 380

  • Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Diabetes, Human Physiology, Animal Physiology

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